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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1925
Page
5
Paris commentators resist the idea that the United States under Coolidge aims to rule globally. The Paris Midi notes pronounced satire on US omnipotence and dollars as peace tools, while European democracies favor arrangements easing economic pressure and resisting gold’s power.
Margaret B. Buchanan former secretary to Samuel Kendall faced trial on charges she forged the name of Mrs Martha Warfield to two Veterans Bureau checks totaling 981 dollars. The indictment alleges the checks were for Warfield’s compensation and war risk insurance held by her son William Henry Warfield. The proceedings began before Chief Justice Metcalf and a jury in the Supreme Court criminal division.
John Cartwright, 23, a cook, was sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary at Moundsville after confessing to forging a $15 check drawn on the Merchants Bank of Clarksburg. He gave his father’s name as W. J Cartwright and claimed Grove address. A second defendant, 32, of Ocean Mines near Bridgeport, confessed to possessing an illegal moonshine still and was fined $400 and costs in addition to the penitentiary term.
Des Moines Iowa reports movie stars and managers were arrested for two hours after jumping aboard a BiH hotel bus in Omaha. Anna May Wong Cullen Landis Ena Gregory Tack Daugherty among those stopped. H S Tighe president for Vosmle company and others named. They planned to continue their tour with four managers on an independent basis.
A New York official stated that all air mail service between New York and Chicago would be in operation no later than July with a nine hour flight each way via Cleveland and beacon stations. Postmaster general’s assistant Pat Henderson leads preparations for the two terminal air line. The postage rate is eight cents.
In Waitington on March 1 Colonel John Q Tilson of the ordnance department reserve is ordered to active duty for three months beginning March under army orders published today. He reports to the chief of staff as an additional member of the war department general staff.
Chapel Hill March 1 The blowout factor in the Utes southern conference basketball title chase is credited to prayer with UNC winning the championships in the west. Cleveland March 0.
Pittsburgh March 5. A plan to improve Pennsylvania Railroad facilities in Pittsburgh was approved today by Mayor William Magee who signed an ordinance funding the expansion. The program calls for vacating and widening several streets near the terminal to Liberty Avenue and the installation of a second underground tunnel between Seventh and Fourth avenues to connect the main terminal with Fourth Avenue.
Prohibition agents report arrests after an office raid in Chicago involving Miss Loretta and a coworker. About 360 quarts of Canadian whiskey were seized. The Sleuths say Janey lured Reynolda to the office after a sale of a bottle. A separate item notes Herbert Whitbread, a Welsh prodigy, performing in London.
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